The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 84
'Is it really, I, Desiree?' she said to herself, weeping. '
Who acts: fate, I · What happens: be, say, weep · To what, where: I, thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fate, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 I | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 I | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 I | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 I | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 I | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Desiree | punct |
| 8 | Desiree | Desiree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 I | appos |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 Desiree | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Desiree | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 herself | case |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 weeping | punct |
| 16 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 weeping | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 weeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | fate | I | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | I | thing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | weep | gerund | I not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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